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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#245 - Good Girl, Gone (Bloomsbury, London, WC2)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, True-crime, London, English, Uk, British, Murder, True Crime, Killer, Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

#245 - Good Girl, Gone. On 18th of May 1942, 33-year-old part-time prostitute Jean Stafford welcomed a regular client into her room at 3 Bedford Place in Bloomsbury. Being shy and hating her job, she was hoping that a wealthy bachelor would sweep her off her. But later found dead, the detectives initially mistook her death for natural causes. But was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder?

  • Date: 18th May 1942 between 9pm and 10pm
  • Location: rear room, ground floor, 3 Bedford Place, Bloomsbury, London, England, WC2
  • Victim: 1 (Jean Stafford, real name Agnes Martin)
  • Culprit: 1 (unknown)


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder My. Today I'm standing on Bedford Place in Bloomsbury, W.C. 1.

0:21.0

1 Street East of Vera Crawford's killing, one street south, of where the unfortunate

0:26.7

Mr Johnson's killer took a snooze, the same street as the arrest of Zakariah Buller

0:32.4

and a few houses from the feet

0:36.1

which stank coming soon to Murdemile. built in 1805.

0:47.0

Bedford Place consists of two rows of Georgian townhouses, with white stucco and black wrought iron railings on the ground floor

0:55.4

with brown brick and white sills on the three floors above. It's easy to get confused, as with every house looking identical, the neighbor's lives must resemble a bordy sex fast from the 1960s,

1:11.0

as several Randy Sel kiss their frumpy wives,

1:16.0

died next door to doink as always his trumpet silly.

1:20.0

Oh, hello!

1:21.0

Only to realize that he's either boofty's wife, the vicar, a dog, or knowing this neighborhood,

1:29.1

a tub of avocado and hummus Sashimi. On the night of Monday the 18th of May, 1942,

1:40.0

33 of all part-time prostitute Jean Stafford was waiting in her ground floor room a three

1:46.7

bedford place for a man.

1:51.5

As a good woman in a bad situation, she hoped that this potential husband would end her struggle and take away her misery.

2:00.0

And although this expecting guest arrived, that night he erased her pain by ending her life.

2:09.0

My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile.

2:17.0

Episode 245. Good girl, gone. The death of Jean Stafford makes no sense at all when you look at her life. Her real name was Agnes Martin. Born on the 3rd of August

2:50.9

909 in the village of Deepcar, a few miles north of Sheffield,

2:56.7

although she adopted several monarchas, she never lost her strong Yorkshire accent.

3:08.0

Raised in a working-class family of coal miners and quarrymen. Agnes, who preferred to be called Jean after the actress Jean Harlow was the only step sibling in this family

3:16.0

of 12 so felt that she never belonged. Little is known of her upbringing, but growing to be a small but sturdy girl with pale skin, eyes and apple blossom cheeks.

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